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Originally Posted by unkated
Mounting and dropping bombs from a transport is not a big problem.
Doing so with accuracy is. Such drops are as much luck as anything else. Most transports lack targeting systems.
If your target is a town, you can probably hit something in the town. If your target is a particular building or a bridge or a section or road... small chances exist, but no more than that.
You can improve accuracy by flying lower, closer to the target - which makes you an easier target for any AA guns; fly real low, and AA missiles have a hard time getting a lock on you (but small arms can).
You can add the German Ju52 to your list; the original version in 1936 had bombbay doors and was used a bomber in Spain briefly - but the losses in aircraft and pilots soon became too expensive, and bombbay doors were dropped from the design.
Uncle Ted
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the craft have the most info are would do no worse than an anti ship run from a B-25. that put a few small targets on the bottom. the speed of current "transports" i listed are as fast as a B25. i also was refering this as a twilight 2000 and manpad SAMs are rare. Most only have a battery that last a few years before needing to be replaced. with no one or only one or two countyrs in T2K capable of make replacement batteries in those missile, SAMs will drop numbers quickly. or if you add flare kits that were taken off of grounded fighters (lack of parts or fuel) and add them to you new light bombers. that would increase your chances against SAMs. It would do NOTHING against HMGs and medium AA cannons (37mm,40mm,57mm) are even harder to find than manpads. or you can fly above 24.000 feet and they would not be able to touch you. just aim for the center of town, that should be good enough.
